Month: April 2025

Welcoming new Portlanders to the Pacific Northwest Forest via ORCAS (Oregon Refugee Children’s Assistance Services) & Watershed 101 Spring Break workshop

One of our favorite spring events has become an annual tradition between Tryon Creek Watershed Council and Oregon Refugee Children’s Assistance Services (ORCAS), where we welcome a multilingual group of students to the Tryon Creek State Natural Area. For many of these students it’s their first time visiting a Pacific Northwest forest! Students who joined…
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Drizzly and delightful! 16th Annual Watershed Wide Event

Our mid-March 16th Annual Watershed Wide Event went really well! This is always an all-hands-on-deck, partnership-filled event and this year was no different. It was forecasted to be entirely rainy… but things cleared up during the first part of our work parties! Across nine sites, we had 121 volunteers who planted 431 native plants, removed…
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